Shauna Fleming, 15, was challenged by her father to collect a million thank you letters
for servicemen. She got the campaign started at her school, Lutheran High of Orange, California. Her target date is May, which is National Military Appreciation Month.

Here is the project's website: A Miilion Thanks.org. It gives guidelines for writing the letters, and tells how to send them to the
organization.

Congress designated May as National Military Appreciation Month in 1999. This is their website:
www.nmam.org

A Costa Mesa, CA, dress shop near Camp Pendleton, offered free wedding gowns
to fiancees getting married to Marines. It was part of a program involving 14 bridal shops across
the country that gave away about 100 gowns. For some, the wedding will happen when their future
husband gets back from Iraq.